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Hainan Island, sometimes dubbed as “Asia’s Hawaii”, has been developing eco-friendly tourism over the past decade and focusing on building an International Tourism Island. [Photo by Cui Can/China.org.cn] |
Hainan Island, sometimes dubbed as “Asia’s Hawaii”, has been developing eco-friendly tourism over the past decade while focusing on building an International Tourism Island. The island boasts excellent air quality, clean water and the opportunity for a healthy lifestyle.
Themed “Discover Hainan’s New Charm”, the 2017 Internet Plus City Promotion activity was organized by Hainan Daily Press Group and Hinews.
From July 17 to 22, over 50 reporters and photographers from national key news media and mobile news networks travel to Hainan to witness the achievements made by the whole province in recent years.
Starting from Haikou, through Wenchang, Qionghai, Wanning, Baoting, Sanya, the city tour will demonstrate Hainan as a province of economic prosperity, social civilization, ecological livability and people’s happiness.
Meanwhile, by fully making use of Hainan’s advantages in ecological environment, special economic zone and the international tourism island, Hainan has earned a reputation at home and abroad as the “Garden of Full seasons” and a “Paradise Resort.”
To push forward the building of Hainan International Tourism Island, Hainan has been given fresh impetus to social, economic and cultural development. Rich in natural resources and backed by its eco-friendly development, Hainan has become a more attractive and energetic city.
Han Chaoguang, the CEO of Hinews, delivered a welcome speech to participants of the activity on July 16.
In his speech, he mentioned that Hainan has carried out a new round of reform to further its building of an international tourism island. And by utilizing the Internet Plus City Promotion activity, Hainan expect its new image through the media.
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This week’s selection comes from Niamh Dillon, National Life Stories Project Interviewer. Prue Leith is well known to television viewers of the Great British Menu. She started her career as a chef and restaurateur in London. In this extract from a longer recording with Niamh Dillon for Food: From Source… read more
What a nonsense this row is about so called Henry VIII clauses.
All our current EU laws either were imposed direct with no reference at all to Parliament, or had to be voted through as Statutory Instruments in order to comply. Thousands of EU jaws became our laws with no opportunity for Parliament to debate and vote on them as draft Acts of Parliament. Parliament was warned it could not vote down SIs that were needed to implement Directives, and an alliance of the two main front benches ensured they always passed.
Now Parliament is debating at great length transferring all these laws into UK laws by a full Act of Parliament. Thereafter if we wish to change any of them we will be able to so, but again it will take a full Act of Parliament to do so. That is the restoration of the democratic control we voted for.
Because the draft Act says Ministers for a 2 year period may make technical adjustments so these laws still work in the way intended once they are Uk law by passing a Statutory Instrument Labour is wrongly saying this is not democratic.
The power will only be used for technical changes like striking out reference to other member states in what becomes a UK law, or substituting a UK’s court or other body to adjudicate or act where an EU institution does at the moment. Parliament will still be involved as any Statutory Instrument can be debated and voted on if the Opposition wishes.
It is embarrassing to hear and see so much airtime given over to this non story. Why did we never hear about the complete absence of democracy for all those laws the EU imposed on us? Why was it right to allow SIs for major changes to our law when it came from the EU, yet it is not even allowed to use SIs for technical changes to keep the purpose and effectiveness of the inherited EU law?
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